“Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.”

This is how Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader very succinctly captured the essence of the conservative war against Voting Rights in her 2013 dissent for Shelby County v. Holder.

https://www.naacpldf.org/shelby-county-v-holder-impact/
https://time.com/5890983/ruth-bader-ginsburg-voting-rights/
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@AkaSci An addition to the alt text:

Only six members of the court are shown helping to raise the Confederate flag, not all nine (Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson are omitted). And the justices are also trampling a piece of paper with the label "Voting Rights Act"

#AltText4You #AltText #USPol

@AkaSci

May 16th 2026
https://portside.org/2026-05-13/no-kings-movement-and-all-roads-lead-south-protest-gop-voting-rights-attacks

All Roads Lead To The South
https://blackpowerwarroom.com/dayofaction/

#Alabama #Montgomery #Selma
#NoKings #VotingRightsAct

@AkaSci Back when I was a philosopher, we had a somewhat unkind tendency to call certain things "frivolously false".

In those days we were talking about theses: these days we're talking about judgements.

@AkaSci
The sweeping statement "the the conditions that justifiedthe law no longer exist" reads as a political/policy statement which is the jurisdiction of Congress and not a legal test.

Or maybe the US Supreme Court thinks it is a lawmaking body rather than a court of law.

@AkaSci

It needs to have consequences, politics and justice should be independent entities.

@AkaSci

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/15/gop-gerrymandering-is-erasing-the-souths-black-votes/

#civilrights #gerrymandering #VotingRightsAct